The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.